Regardless of the path you choose, you may need to meet additional requirements to become fully certified, including becoming a member of the AAPC or the AHIMA after passing your certification exam. Those who pass the CPC® exam are considered apprentices until they gain 2 years of coding experience.
At DeVry, medical billing and coding students receive complimentary AAPC Student Membership, a tool that provides career resources to assist you in your career journey. While Medical Billing and Coding – Health Information Coding students receive a complimentary AHIMA Student Membership.
Our Undergraduate Certificate in Medical Billing and Coding programs include our Digital Health Core series of courses, which we designed to help our students develop a set of interdisciplinary skills for today's rapidly evolving health information field. Courses in this series explore many of the principles used throughout the healthcare ecosystem and expose students to essential topics related to medical terminology, compliance, ethics, electronic medical records, patient privacy and digital aspects of the healthcare delivery system.
The Digital Health Core curriculum also provides students hands-on experience with industry-standard software systems and simulated patient records.